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Sea monsters’ irresistible attraction

SEA monsters have long exerted a pull on the imagination. Tales of krakens and leviathans once drew power from our ignorance of the sea, and the myth of the Loch Ness monster refuses to go away. But these fantastical creatures pale in comparison with real monsters of the deep, as the discovery of a huge fossilised jawbone from England’s Jurassic Coast illustrates. That probably came from a large pliosaur – though it was perhaps not quite as large as some reports suggested. For the true, and truly awesome, story of these beasts read Real sea monsters&colon; The hunt for predator X …